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...happens, Roosevelt's outlook was not entirely different. He didn't dispute the benefits of large-scale capitalism, and he thought of huge enterprises as an inevitable development of the industrial age. He understood the idea of economies of scale. Wisconsin Senator Robert La Follette and William Jennings Bryan, the perennial standard bearer for the common man, might have wanted to dismantle everything bigger than a hardware store. What Roosevelt wanted was simply to regulate the big outfits. For starters, he wanted to compel them to open their books. Quarterly reporting in the corporate world was still a novelty...
...broken-windows theory of domestic terrorism--after James Q. Wilson's and George L. Kelling's much lauded crime policy that suggests that by cracking down on minor offenders, you send a message to the major ones, and sometimes catch them too. The policy, reiterated by FBI director Robert Mueller in a conveniently timed speech late last week, is to never dismiss the grand schemes of small men, even if those men are Americans and their schemes are more dream than reality. "Radicalization often starts with individuals who are frustrated with their lives, with the politics of their home governments...
...GEORGE W. BUSH CC: ROBERT S. MUELLER, FBI; ALBERTO R. GONZALEZ, DEPT. OF JUSTICE...
...Klein missed the point. The objection we have to illegal immigrants is that they have intentionally broken important laws of this country. If our immigration laws are unsatisfactory, then change the laws, but don't encourage making a mockery of them. Robert L. Cragg Maple Glen, Pennsylvania...
...White House aide Karl Rove, who generally won't approve any flight that costs more than $500, was waiting for his Southwest Airlines flight from Baltimore to Manchester, N.H., to take off last week when he got a stunning BlackBerry message from his lawyer, Robert Luskin: "Fitzgerald Called. Case Over." Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel investigating the leak of former CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity, had sent a fax saying that absent any unexpected developments, he did not anticipate any criminal charges against Rove. The message to Luskin from Fitzgerald--who said nothing publicly--was an unrequired, if welcome...